February, 2008 Archives

A brief diversion from poker to cover “The Wire”

February 28th, 2008 · Posted in Uncategorized · 0 Comments

First of all, let me get this one thing out of the way.   The Wire is the best television show ever made.  Not just good, the best.  Some of you think that M.A.S.H. or The Sopranos or some other show is the best, but you are wrong.  If you haven’t watched The Wire or you [...]

Riding the rollercoaster.

February 27th, 2008 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

I’ve been a bit up and down since I last posted an update. Mostly, I’ve been focused on a variety of personal issues getting ready for the house update. I’ve played a bit more on Stars and some on Cake, just to check it out. ITHers find Cake uber-soft and it seems [...]

I’m not sure how this relates to poker

February 25th, 2008 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

But I’m sure it does:

Turn raises

February 22nd, 2008 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

Terry Borer is the guest expert on ITH today and he has posted in an interesting thread about turn raises and what they represent. His book suggested that turn raises are top pair or better a very high percentage of the time. The book suggests it may be as high as 94% of [...]

If I had your hand and you had mine, what would happen?

February 21st, 2008 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

I have played almost no poker since the last update. I woke up at 2AM this morning and have been playing for half an hour or so. Action is slow, so I’m playing 10/20 on Stars at the moment. I got in a funny situation on the table there. There was [...]

Slow poker day

February 19th, 2008 · Posted in poker · 4 Comments

Today was primarily dedicated to making remodeling decisions on the house and building a spreadsheet to track just how screwed I am.  The first item we discussed was the appliances for the kitchen and I think we’re $4,000 over budget on that line item.  That does not bode well for the project.  Its kinda frustrating [...]

Good news / bad news

February 18th, 2008 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

I played a lot better yesterday.  I was recognizing the flow of the game better and I’m pretty sure I corrected most of the leaks I was working on.  Unfortunately, this didn’t translate into winning money, as I dropped $500 or so.  Nonetheless, I’m pretty confident that I was playing better.
I actually donked around in [...]

Sometimes you run bad, but usually you play bad.

February 17th, 2008 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

There is a flaw common to many of us as poker players.  We tend to think we are better than we are.  When we win, we accept it as our natural due and when we lose we tend to blame bad luck.  Certainly, luck is involved especially when you look at day by day results [...]

The state of online poker today

February 14th, 2008 · Posted in poker · 2 Comments

In the pre-UIGEA days, I used to be able to find dozens of full tables of 15/30 and 30/60 at any hour of the day or night at good old PartyPoker.  Often, these tables were populated with some amazingly poor players.  You saw new faces every single day.  Part of this is explained by the [...]

I haven’t been doing enough opposition research lately

February 13th, 2008 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

It occurred to me that I really haven’t been spending enough time reviewing my sessions and analyzing my opponents lately.  I got to devote a little bit of time to that project late last night when I couldn’t sleep and I feel like it helped me make better decisions already today.  I think I found [...]